More Fatah leaders return to Gaza Strip
Published 24 January 2013 13:38
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EL-ARISH, Egypt (Ma'an) -- Several Fatah leaders who fled Gaza amid fighting
with Hamas in 2007 returned to the enclave on Thursday.

Prominent security official Nasser al-Saqq, who headed the Palestinian
Authority's preventive security service in Khan Younis in southern Gaza,
returned with his wife and five children through the Rafah crossing on
Egypt's border, a Ma'an reporter said.

Hassan Abu Jandal, a leader in Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigades in Khan Younis, also
returned with his family, as did Fatah leaders Fayiz al-Qassas and Khalid
al-Shaer.

"We have the right to return to our homeland in light of the real and
serious reconciliation agreement," al-Qassas told Ma'an.

Hundreds of Fatah members fled Gaza in 2007 during a brief war with Hamas,
which took control of the coastal strip.